# Binary strings

Andrew Wendt (powerpig@m-net.arbornet.org)
Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:22:40 PST

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    On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Pavel Curtis wrote:

    >    output to that connection can contain arbitrary bytes.  On input, any byte
    >    that isn't an ASCII printing character, the space character, or the TAB
    >    character will be represented as the four-character substring "~NNN", where
    >    NNN is the octal representation of the byte; the input character `~' is

    Wouldn't hex be more sane, being smaller and exactly encoding a byte with
    nothing left over?

    TTFN
    Andy